Gundam 00 — Episode 21
This entry is behind schedule due to various real-life circumstances and is in no way related to the recently-released ToHeart2 AnotherDays game.
This episode has dead corpses, people getting blown up and other awesome bits of content that are not suitable for children below the age of retirement. For maximum enjoyment, please disconnect cerebral cortex and temporarily suspend high-level cognitive functions. Also, put your phone on silent mode, you inconsiderate sob!
Summary
This is mainly an action episode. HRL launches an attack against Trinity’s mountain lair in northwestern Africa, while AEU and Union cooperate to take down Ptolemaios.
No one left to pay the bills
Saji finds out that his sister was investigating on Aeolia Schenberg and goes into emo mode. Like an internet child predator patiently grooming his potential victim, Sunrise is setting Saji up to become the ultimate emo protagonist of pure hatred. Next episode: Saji finds out that Celestial Being agents infiltrated his school and gave him a failing grade for his history module.
“Look at this lone conveniently-located flower in the middle of this rocky wasteland.”
Setsuna is having (wet) dreams of Marina, which is weird considering they have only met like four times, but I guess that’s teenage infatuation for you. (Especially since Marina has the older sister thing going.) This is timely reminder to the audience that Marina still exists. I wonder how Azadistan is doing now…
Cutthroat business
Alejandro leaves no loose ends. Ragnar Harvey is dead and the Trinity siblings are betrayed.
“Madam, something’s wrong! The monochrome display is showing red!”
During the battle with the Jinxes, the Gundams get deactivated by a hacked Veda. Fortunately, Sumeragi predicted this and had Feldt and Christina prepare a “stand-alone operating system” (lol) that bypasses Veda.
“Life without love is meaningless…”
Unfortunately, it seems to work for everyone except Virtue. Tieria emos after he realizes that he’s just been dumped by Veda, his one true love.
Dynames gets forcefully penetrated
Surprisingly, Mr. Patrick Coleslawguy gets to do more than get owned in this episode. He manages to shoot through Virtue’s GN field, destroy Dynames’ rifle, and then cut through Dynames’ frontal armour while Lockon is trying to shield the deactivated Tieria from certain death. The reason for his sudden jump in performance? Apparently, Colonel Manekin promised him a kiss. (Or maybe that’s just his own delusion too.)
GN arms — Where are the arms?
The guy whose name I can’t ever remember appears at the critical moment with GN arms to save the day. AEU and Union Jinxes retreat.
Interestingly, during the two missions, exactly three Jinxes get destroyed. (At least by my count.) I’m guessing it’s one from each power bloc. I say it’s interesting because what happens if the three superpowers do manage to destroy Celestial Being, but do so at the cost of a few more Jinxes? Wouldn’t the one with the most left “win”? And shouldn’t they then be more concerned about preserving those Jinxes for the inevitable world war that is going to come next? Oh forget it, I’m sure Alejandro will deactivate them as soon as Celestial Being is gone anyway.
Screencaps
Just for the record: Yeah she’s totally dead, not counting possible zombies/clones
Those crazy Europeans and their customary greetings
Feldt uses blush! It’s super effective!
“O Soran, Soran, wherefore art thou Soran?”
“STFU.”
Sumeragi reveals her true evil plan to silence the whole Ptolemy crew with beer
“Saji, I’m sorry. I can’t issue her last paycheck because she died one day too early.”
Isn’t this from that new Appleseed movie?
Red trumps green
Sitting duck
“Noooooooooo!”
Lockon getting microwaved
“I was so blinded by my love for Veda that I didn’t realize Lockon’s feelings for me.”
Five seconds of fame
Greek gods didn’t die from a lack of believers. They died due to natural selection favouring genetic diversity over systematic incest.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
yay comments!! FUNNY comments and FUNNY blog
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
@bevan:
ya man! you’re so right! And thanks for the reminder! He does have a twin!! maybe he’ll get repaired from his twin, or his twin replaces him and fights for him in his place eh~?
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
the G.N. arms does attach to Exia. the model was revealed few days ago.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Hes blind!!! oh noes now CB will make him a mask that implants to his brain with visual receptors! Nice way of making a masked character sunrise!
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I actually feel sorry for saji
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Does anybody else worry that Saji may get a Gundam and then pull a Wufei on us and name it after his Girlfriend? I don’t think I can buy a Gundam Louise… the rest of my models would die of embarrassment.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I doubt Lockon’s twin will even be willing to pilot a Gundam, let alone learn how to pilot one.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Saji gonna replace lockon and bacome the super smo pilot
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Ok, then we have how to create the ultimate emo-kid V2.
Injured CB member and a new unit just being “easily” introduced and saving Tieria´s ass?
I just don´t know what to think anymore, but atleast Setsuna got some new stuff into his head instead of just thinking “gundam, I´m the gundam”…
Oh well, hope they make this show worth watching later on as well. Or are they going to do a cliffhanger like they did in CG?
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Howcome when the throne gundams take a shot at virtue’s gn field it gets blocked and when the gn’x’s shoot it penetrates the field ?
I thought they had the same kind of (fake) solar furnace
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
people sure like to retreat in these series btw,
March 4th, 2008 at 1:51 am
@Glitch: I said it before and I’ll say it again. You withdraw your troops if you have lost all tactical advantage before you start losing units left and right.
And the Thrones’ beam weapon is classified as a handgun, whereas the Jinx weapons are heavy rifles and submachine guns. I’d expect them to have more punch than the Thrones’ pea shooters.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:06 am
thanx,
smartass , I know about the retreat ,just makes it kinda borring
March 4th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I dont think any of the gundam meisters are going to die. Simply cause the ending of the episodes I mean the ED or OP whatever its called…they show all of the gundam meisters in various poses of angst and melancholy…so they will all be fine…traumatized (if not already) but fine…
March 4th, 2008 at 9:57 am
can u guys guess who triggered the withdrawal flare before the end of AEU and Union assault? there is no capital ship around and the highest ranking officer was busy trying to slice the gundams….conundrum…conundrum…conundrum
March 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Just so you all know that isn’t a GN arm. Based on what the guy says or what I think he says it is a Gundam that hasn’t been used for a while.
Also, this is a old thought but it still is making me wonder. You have 30 GN drives in one place I don’t care if they are fake. But you don’t have any alarms that would go off and the same with Veda’s main core. Nothing? What were you thinking!?! Nothing for just in case!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
@hi
I’m sure that Libbons or whatever his name is deactivated any sensors or alarms considering they didn’t just WALTZ in there, but they hacked Veda and it “let” them in. Also, what are you talking about alarms and 30 GN Drives?
March 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
It’s not like they stole the 30 GN Drives. Ragna sold de GN Drives and the mobile suits that use them to the Union, HRL and AEU.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
The GN Arm is NOT an untransformed old Gundam. Its an attachment like the G-defensor was for the Gundam MK. II. Just take a look.
http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/00/gnarms.htm
But I’m still wondering why they havent talked about the first Gundam ( O Gundam) or its pilot.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
@hi
“Just so you all know that isn’t a GN arm. Based on what the guy says or what I think he says it is a Gundam that hasn’t been used for a while.”
Model kits and official info says otherwise. That it the GN Arms in action.